What Nintendo should have done instead (in my opinion)

[PxlStorm]

Ka-pi96 said:

PxlStorm said:

Barkley said:
What's the reasoning behind releasing the titles on PC and not on PS4/XBO? There's really no reason to release your titles on the PC and not the consoles too.... apart from a vocal minority who don't want there beloved franchises tarnished by hitlers own consoles the ps4 and xbo.

They'd have to give some of their revenue made off of these games to Sony and Microsoft. And pretty much everybody who has a PS4 and XBox One would have access to this new platform as well.

That's arguable. Plenty of people don't have great gaming computers and plenty don't particularly like gaming on PC either. Look at the huge sales differences between console and PC games. Not just the actual numbers, look at the revenue, console gamers are willing to pay more up front than PC gamers are.

Here in the UK the cost of a brand new console game is £40-£50, while the cost of a new PC game is £30-£40. The amount they'd have to pay out in platform royalties would effectively be covered by that. Not to mention they could get marketing agreements with the console makers (as most other publishers do), saving them money on advertising and boosting their sales.

But the Wii U has an audience of 9-10m owners. The PC service would certainly open up a bigger userbase than before, which would obviously help sales as well. And as I stated in my post, most Nintendo games have a low graphical level. I don't have a dedicated gaming PC and yet my PC can still run most of the games from 2013 and 2014.